Historic Engineering Wonders: Photos That Reveal How They Pulled It Off

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<a href="https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/engineering-methods-from-the-past/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/engineering-methods-from-the-past/

Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland's Maps

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<a href="https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/for-decades-cartographers-have-been-hiding-covert-illustrations-inside-of-switzerlands-official-maps/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/for-decades-cartographers-have-been-hiding-covert-illustrations-inside-of-switzerlands-official-maps/

Why xor eax, eax?

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<a href="https://xania.org/202512/01-xor-eax-eax" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://xania.org/202512/01-xor-eax-eax

Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?

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<a href="https://allenpike.com/2025/why-is-chatgpt-so-good-claude" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://allenpike.com/2025/why-is-chatgpt-so-good-claude

Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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<a href="https://www.jpt.sh/projects/trifold/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://www.jpt.sh/projects/trifold/

UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion'

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<a href="https://netpol.org/2025/11/28/government-plans-new-powers-to-label-dissenting-movements-as-subversion/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://netpol.org/2025/11/28/government-plans-new-powers-to-label-dissenting-movements-as-subversion/

Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years

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<a href="https://yaky.dev/2025-11-30-self-hosting-matrix/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://yaky.dev/2025-11-30-self-hosting-matrix/

Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups

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<a href="https://x11libre.net/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://x11libre.net/

Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton

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<a href="https://areweanticheatyet.com/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://areweanticheatyet.com/

DeepSeek releases open-weights math model with IMO gold medal performance

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<a href="https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2

We've Detected Lightning on Mars

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<a href="https://gizmodo.com/weve-detected-lightning-on-mars-for-the-first-time-2000691996" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://gizmodo.com/weve-detected-lightning-on-mars-for-the-first-time-2000691996

Do the thinking models think?

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<a href="https://bytesauna.com/post/consciousness" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://bytesauna.com/post/consciousness

SmartTube Compromised

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<a href="https://www.aftvnews.com/smarttubes-official-apk-was-compromised-with-malware-what-you-should-do-if-you-use-it/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://www.aftvnews.com/smarttubes-official-apk-was-compromised-with-malware-what-you-should-do-if-you-use-it/

Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive

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<a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://old.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of/

It’s been a very hard year

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<a href="https://bell.bz/its-been-a-very-hard-year/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://bell.bz/its-been-a-very-hard-year/

Google Antigravity Deletes D Drive

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<a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@[email protected]/115641546248437052" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@[email protected]/115641546248437052

'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs

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<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/beec76df-8e6d-4238-bae2-e51683b62aa4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://www.ft.com/content/beec76df-8e6d-4238-bae2-e51683b62aa4

Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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<a href="https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader

Advent of Sysadmin 2025

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<a href="https://sadservers.com/advent" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://sadservers.com/advent

Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Wikipedia

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<a href="https://www.404media.co/grokipedia-is-the-antithesis-of-everything-that-makes-wikipedia-good-useful-and-human/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://www.404media.co/grokipedia-is-the-antithesis-of-everything-that-makes-wikipedia-good-useful-and-human/

In Re: 23andMe, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation

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<a href="https://www.23andmedatasettlement.com/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://www.23andmedatasettlement.com/

Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?

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<a href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/11/30/is-americas-jobs-market-nearing-a-cliff" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/11/30/is-americas-jobs-market-nearing-a-cliff

Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries (developing story)

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<a href="https://jaysbrickblog.com/news/bricklink-suspends-marketplace-operations-in-35-countries/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://jaysbrickblog.com/news/bricklink-suspends-marketplace-operations-in-35-countries/

Algorithms for Optimization [pdf]

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Ty

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<a href="https://docs.astral.sh/ty/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://docs.astral.sh/ty/